Ring sneaks
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Anniella campi |
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Anniellidae | ||||||||||||
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Anniella | ||||||||||||
Gray , 1852 |
The Ringel crawl ( Anni Ella ) are a genus of Squamata (squamates). They stand alone in the Anniellidae family .
The up to 30 centimeters long animals are similar to the slow worms . However, they lack the external auditory orifices and they also have no bone plates under their scales. The legs are missing. Her eyes are small and the lids flexible. They live underground during the day and come to the surface at night to forage. With their tongues and sideways wave movements they dig their passages in loose and sandy earth. Their diet consists mainly of insects.
American legless lizard are viviparous ( viviparous ). Between September and November the females give birth to one to four young. The lizards reach sexual maturity at around three years of age.
species
There are six species, found in the US state of California and the Mexican state of Baja California . The Geronimo ring snake takes its name from the island of San Gerónimo (Spanish: Isla San Jerónimo ) in which it lives, off the west coast of Baja California.
- Anniella alexanderae
- Anniella campi
- Geronimo ringworm ( Anniella geronimensis )
- Anniella grinnelli
- Californian ring worm ( Anniella pulchra )
- Anniella stebbinsi
literature
- Theodore J. Papenfuss, James F. Parham: Four new species of California Legless Lizards (Anniella) (= Breviora. No. 536). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge MA 2013, doi : 10.3099 / MCZ10.1 , digitized version (PDF; 5.26 MB) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ American legless lizards from: The Reptile Database , accessed on March 31, 2010, English.
Web links
- THE REPTILE DATABASE Family Anniellidae (American Legless lizards)
- Animal Diversity Web Family Anniellidae
- Anniella in The Reptile Database